Bench for wringing-mach ines



(No ModeL) J; B. BRAOKETT & J. R. BAILEY.

Bench for wringing Machine.

' No. 234,653. Patented Nov. 23, 1880.

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JEFFERSON B. BRAGKETT AND JOSEPH R. BAILEY, OF WVOONSOOKET. RHODEISLAND, ASSIGNORS TO SAID BRAOKETT AND ARCHIE L.

TALBOT, OF LEWISTON, MAINE.

BENCH FOR WRINGING-MACHINES.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,653, datedNovember 23, 1880,

Application filed Juno 9, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JEFFERSON B. BRACK- ETT and J OSEPH R. BAILEY, ofWoonsocket, ot' the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, haveinvented a new and useful ImprovementinBenches for \Vringing-Machines;and we do hereby declare the same to be described in the followingspecification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-Figure 1 is afront elevation, Fig. 2 an end view, and Fig. 3 alongitudinal section, of a bench having our invention. Fig. 4 is a topview of the water-board, while Fig. 5 is a horizontal section of it andits supporters, to be hereinafter described. Fig. 6 is hereinafterexplained.

The nature of our invention is defined in the claims hereinafter setforth.

In the drawings, A denotes afolding bench.

At the middle part of it there are two wringer-- supporters, B, suchconsisting of two arms, a a, and a connecting cross-bar, 1), arranged asshown. Each supporter straddles the top frame, 0, of the bench, and ispivoted thereto so as to be capable of being turned down upon such frameand into the position as shown by dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2, or upagainst its fellow, in manner as represented in said figures. Eachsupporter, when up, inclines toward the other, their two cross-barsbeing then'in contact, as shown in Fig. 3. Thus one supporter serves asa brace to the other, especially when a wringer is fastened to their twocross-bars, which is accomplished by applying and securing it to them inthe manner in which it is usually applied and secured to a tub at itsedgethat is to say, by causing it to straddle the bars and to be held tothem by its clamping devices.

Fig. 6 is an end view of a wringer so applied to the cross-bars of thetwo supporters. One or each of the said supporters has on the inneredges of its arms bearings f, for receiving the journals g of thewater-board G, which, projecting from the ends of the board at theirmiddles, enter such bearings and turn therein, and are kept in place bythe supporters when elevated and against each other. On turning (Nomodel.)

one of the supporting-arms from the other the water-board may beseparated from them. This water-board is to cause the water from thewringer to be discharged into a tub whenon the bench.

The top frame of the bench is composed of two pairs of bars, h, andintermediate bar, 6, and two cross-bars, it", all being arranged asrepresented. Each leg-frame of the bench is composed of two legs, m, andconnecting crossbars 12 0, arranged as represented. Each of the legs, atits upper part, is inserted between a pair of the bars h, and is pivotedto them, in order that when the legs are folded or turned up to the topframe they may enter or fold into the space between the said bars.Struts p p, pivoted to the medial bar t" of the top frame and notched attheir outer ends, serve to hold the leg-frames out when the legs arebearing against the inner edge of the cross-bars k.

In using the wringer it is customary to do so with two tubs placed onthe bench, the wringer being above and between such tubs. The clothes,while the water is being expelled from them by the wringer, pass fromone tub between the squeeze-rollers of the wringer to and into the othertub, the water discharged being caused to flow back into the tub fromwhence the clothes are taken.

A bench provided with asingle wringer-supporter is shown in the patentto S. Wiswell, entitled Reissue No. 4,097 consequently such does notconstitute our invention.

We are aware that a wringer by means of arms extending from andpermanently fixed to it and pivoted to the bench is not new.

It will be seen that we do not have the plied relatively to each otherand the bench arranged between such arms and the wringer- 10substantially in manner and to operate as and supporters are up and incontact with each for the purpose set forth, each pair of the saidother, all being substantially as set forth. ar ns and itsconnecting-bar constituting a l JEFFERSON- 13. BRAOKETT.winger-supporter, as explained. JOSEPH P BAILEY 2. The four arms a, (ofthe wringer-supporrers B B,) pivoted to the bench A, and providedWitnesses: with bearings, as represented, to grasp and HENRYiL. PARKER,receive the journals of the water-board when CHARLES F. STEVENS.

